Civilians evacuated from the city of Kherson, which Moscow claims to have annexed, gather at the railway station of the Crimean town of Dzhankoi
(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)Russian forces taken the body of a 18th-century statesman from his grave in Kherson amid the possibility of a rapid withdrawal from the area, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has warned.
A special team was sent to St Catherine’s Cathedral to remove the bones of prince Grigory Potemkin, the long-term lover of Catherine the Great who persuaded her to annex Crimea in 1783.
